gracexchange

In Solidarity with Jesus and His Mission

Sunrise – St. Elena Canyon – Rio Grande – Big Bend National Park

  • Prayer Power

    To pray is to change. Prayer invokes the name of God, makes intersession through Jesus, and opens our hearts to conversation through the Holy Spirit. In the Gospel of James, the 5th Chapter we find a simple, yet life changing verse: 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you Read more

  • Our Chosen Leaders

    Today is March 24. A day of remembrance of the ministry and life of St. Oscar Romero. With all the vitriol and hate espoused today…the Church and it’s people are in need of accountability and transformation; especially for it’s leaders. Those, like St. Romero, who lived among and listened to the poor have found the Read more

  • With Christ You Will Endure

    So prevalent today: you or your co-worker received an email that literally shook the foundation upon which they ‘stood’ – your employment is terminated. As a result, grief and disbelief threaten to destroy their identity as a person, wrecks the ability to sustain passions which ignite love of work, family, community service. They are in Read more

  • And so it goes…

    Several months ago, I began to seek God’s guidance in an effort to transition my time, resources, energy, and experience to align with my personal mission statement (discerned from Micah 6:8 and The Blues Brothers Movie) “I believe that I am gifted by the Spirit, forgiven by Christ, and sent on a mission from God Read more

  • Ending Well

    At the beginning of the Church Year, we are afforded opportunity for reflection and renewal. Within the community of believers I have privilege to serve, Advent Season is a time for endings AND new beginnings. We have learned together that ending well is the better way to begin anew. Yes, there are times to make, Read more

  • Essence of Christianity

    The Essence of Christianity is…Faith ‘Quid pro quo’ – latin for ‘this for that’ – is the law of the land these days.  If I do something, I am owed a reward or some affirmation of favor.  Or more like, give me money and I will do what I can for you.   Consider these Read more

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  • Forgive Me for Revealing Her Age….but KJV is 400 Years Old

    An excerpt from a NY Times article: Sometime in 1611, a new English Bible was published. It was the work of an almost impossibly learned team of men laboring since 1604 under royal mandate. Their purpose, they wrote, was not to make a new translation of the Bible but “to make a good one better,

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  • Invitations from God

    What are the deepest invitations God is making to me right now for my life? This question is what making resolutions is really about. In my journey it is becoming increasingly clear that I have missed so many invitations God sent me through his Word and Church and Community.  So the entry into a new

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  • Christmas 2010

    Tonight – The Holy Night – people will gather to usher in the newest installment in God’s salvation.  In my neck of the woods, this installment will be wrapped in the usual trappings of the season – tree, lights, presents, worship, and FOOD!  Yet there is a shroud over all these things that are supposed

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  • Time for an Xchange – the same old won’t do anymore!

    Welcome to A New Blog on an old theme – Reconciliation! Biblical in scope and command, but so forgotten in the realm of reality – family, work, politics. Reconciliation is simply a path to exchanging one state of being for another, more fruitful state of being – particularly in relationship with our environment and one

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